Yes, I believe the death penalty as a whole should be wiped out. Although the act that this person did that put them on death row may have been extremely horrific and beyond words, we in turn should not take death into our own hands.

I think so, it is far too humane. Why should a murderer, especially a child murderer be spared any discomfort when being executed? Did he give his victims that consideration? I would bet not. Go back to the chair, the noose, and the firing squad. In fact, public stoning would be better. Lest you think I am a sadist, I am a paramedic. I know how hard I have worked to save lives and to minimize pain. I hated seeing any of my patients suffering. As for murderers, the more they feel on the way out the door, the better!!!

The death penalty is barbaric. It is not justice, it is revenge. As a nation who's laws are based on human rights we should have outgrown "an eye for an eye" a long time ago. It is far more cost effective, not to mention humane, to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives, and use them as a labor force.

Thank God I am not in charge of this man.Excuse my weakness ,but he would be dead already.

while i don't believe that execution is appropriate in every case, when a crime is committed that the circumstances and details of the act show the guilty as what can only be described as pure evil without remorse or conscious,It is a necessary punishment in the respect that it will hopefully deter others from committing such crimes.If a person has been sentenced to death, what differance does it make how that person is executed? Death is death, it's final. Of course the execution should not be done with the intent to make the person linger in pain for an unreasonable amount of time before they die. Killing is not clean and painless no matter how much civilized society tries to make it seem that way. So if a person being executed happens to experiance some discomfort during the process of dying. So what? It will be over soon enough. Probably alot sooner than it was for their victims when they lay dying!

Let us set aside whether or not the Death Penalty is acceptable or not. For purposes of this conversation, let us assume that executions will happen anyways and we are merely finding the best method. The morality of executions is a digression and should be (and has been) discussed elsewhere ad nauseum. My personal opinion is that lethal injection was always a rather long, drawn-out, expensive process. Regardless of the method, there is usually some fear involved. Being led down that hallway is psychological torture. So is even knowing that walk is coming up. How many sleep the night before? And then you are strapped in, the needle carefully placed... lots of pomp and circumstance... a few moments of drowsiness with the full knowledge of what is next.... If you want revenge, then "eye for an eye" is better. Sodomize the inmate and bury them alive. Slit their throats and watch their terror as they watch the blood spurt out. Skin them alive and splash them with alcohol. Lethal injection does NOTHING to satisfy the need for revenge, at least not in my eyes. If you want them dead humanely, then I think the best way is to kill them unexpectedly and instantly. A 10-gauge shotgun blast to the skull while they are sleeping would work, if you don't care about the clean-up afterwards and plan a closed casket/cremation. There are plenty of other ways to kill a person more quickly than the pain can register in their brains. Many can be done in their sleep, without all the worrying and fear that imminent executions usually entail. They are just living normally one moment and then they are gone.